Emily Hope was born and raised in a Seattle suburb before moving to the city to attend the University of Washington. At UW, she studied English Literature and Language, Comparative History of Ideas (CHID), and French, and she also had a brief stint as a research assistant in a fossil lab. After graduating, Emily moved to New York City and enrolled in NYU’s Experimental Humanities Program, earning her master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in 2021. Emily is a 2025 graduate of NYU’s Low Residency MFA program, spending part of the year in Paris.
Emily first got into writing through her local library’s Young Author’s Club, where she was introduced to National Novel Writing Month. To this day, Emily still writes her first drafts by hand in a few frenzied weeks. Her current project, Mother City, is a literary-historical fiction piece centering on newlyweds who arrive in New York City in 1903 as the subway is being built. Emily also writes short stories which have been published in journals such as Page & Spine and Fireside Quarterly.
Emily lives in Brooklyn and is currently submitting her work to magazines, journals, and agents. When she is not writing, Emily is either reading from her never-ending To Be Read pile or watching terrible movies.
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